Ruth et Booz, édition originale

Reliure de Creuzevault pour Ruth et Booz de Schmied

Réf. 86508

€ 11000.00

J.-C. Mardrus illustrated by F.-L. Schmied

Paris - F.-L. Schmied - 1930

Bookbinder : Creuzevault
Format : Grand in-4
Number of volumes : 1 volume
Binding : Hardcover
Collation : 76 pp

In hardback case and folder. Bound in full red long-grain morocco. Boards and spines covered with a geometrical composition of intersecting gold and palladium fillets, inner frame decorated with two gold fillets, balsa paper lining and endpapers. Gilt head. Signed CREUZEVAULT binding.

Edition illustrated with 28 color woodcuts by François-Louis Schmied, engraved and printed by his son, Théo Schmied.

LIMITED EDITION OF 170 NUMBERED COPIES. THIS IS COPY NO. I, PRINTED FOR F.-L. SCHMIED, ON MADAGASCAR.

Enriched with an AUTOGRAPH ENVOI by Schmied, dedicatee's name scratched out.

Schmied and Mardrus, two friends, two inseparable names, the publisher and the scholar, two talents at each other's service, at the service of the most reliable taste, of transport to the Orient, as Théo Schmied puts it:

"You have opened this book.
In compositions where the charms of detail are wrapped in a great simple line, my Father has put the vibrant light of midsummer. Around each form dances the burning air."

A magnificent copy in a superb Art Deco patterned binding, from the former Régine and Bernard Loliée collection.

Magnificent copy